Hacker News on 31 December 2011

• Stop whining and start hiring remote workers
• Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood
• Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation
• Happy New Year!
• Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers
• Sony, Nintendo, EA hide behind PR move. Still support SOPA
• The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus
• Full color laser TV
• Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?
• Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS app store